The Cuban Revolution
October 4, 2024
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Primary Sources
Fulgencio Batista, Cuba Betrayed, (1962)
Fidel Castro, Ignacio Ramonet, My Life, (2006)
Earl E.T. Smith, The Fourth Floor: An Account of the Castro Communist Revolution, (1962)
Che Guevara, Diary of a Combatant, (2013)
Andrei Gromyko, Memoirs, (1989)
Nikita Khrushchev, Khrushchev Remembers, (1970)
Cordell Hull, The Memoirs of Cordell Hull, Volumes I & II, (1948)
Harry Truman, Memoirs by Harry S. Truman: Year of Decisions (1955)
Harry Truman, Memoirs by Harry S. Truman: Years of Trial and Hope (1956)
Dwight Eisenhower, Waging Peace: The White House Years, A Personal Account 1956-1961, (1965)
Secondary Sources
Ada Ferrer, An American History of Cuba, (2021)
Peter G. Bourne, Fidel: A Biography of Fidel Castro, (1986)
Marshall Eakin, The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures, (2007)
John Charles Chasteen, Born in Blood & Fire: A Concise History of Latin America, (2006)
Bryce Wood, The Making of the Good Neighbor Policy, (1961)
Theodore Draper, Castro's Revolution; Myths and Realities, (1962)
Samuel Farber, The Origins of the Cuban Revolution Reconsidered, (2006)
William Ratliff, editor, The Selling of Fidel Castro: The Media and the Cuban Revolution, (1987)
Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: The United States in Central America, (1984)
Thomas Skidmore, Peter Smith, James Green, Modern Latin America: Eighth Edition, (2014)
Footnotes
[1] Ferrer, p. 293-8, Batista, ch. 5, Bourne, p. 134-8
[2] Ferrer, p. 293-8, Bourne, 134-8, Guevara, p. 28, Batista, ch. 5
[3] Batista, ch. 5, Ferrer, p. 299-305
[4] Eakin, p. 308-11, Ratliff, p. 1-3
[5] Ferrer, p. 299-305
[6] Ferrer, p. 299-305, Batista, ch. 5
[7] Ferrer, p. 299-305
[8] Ratliff, p. 1-3
[9] Smith, 117-21
[10] Smith, p. 5-7, 115
[11] Ferrer, p. 305-11, Batista, ch. 7
[12] Batista, ch. 7
[13] Smith, p. 10-2, 55-7, Ferrer, p. 305-11
[14] Smith, p. 17-21, 27-8
[15] Batista, ch. 8, Smith, p. 31-3
[16] Ferrer, p. 305-11, Smith, p. 37-8, 58-61, 158-60
[17] Smith, p. 71-6
[18] Smith, 63-5, 68
[19] Smith, p. 84-6, 86-92, 96-100, Batista, ch. 8, Eisenhower, p. 520-1
[20] Smith, 82-3, 86-92, 96-100
[21] Ferrer, p. 305-11, Smith, 76-7, Draper, 14-5
[22] Smith, p. 109-14, 140-8
[23] Smith, 152-7
[24] Batista, ch. 3
[25] Eisenhower, 520-1, Smith, 158-60
[26] Batista, ch. 15, Smith, 163-76
[27] Smith, 183-7
[28] Ferrer, p. 315-20, Smith, 187-9
[29] Eisenhower, 521-3
[30] Eisenhower, 521-3
[31] Ferrer, 320-3
[32] Smith, 189-99
[33] Ferrer, 323-6
[34] Eisenhower, 523-5, Ferrer, 326-8
[35] Nixon, 351-2
[36] Eisenhower, 523
[37] Ferrer, 328-33
[38] Ferrer, 335-42
[39] Kruschev, 540-4, Ferrer, 335-9
[40] Eisenhower, 531-5
[41] Ferrer, 346-50
[42] Eisenhower, 536-9
[43] Ferrer, 346-50
[44] Schlesinger, 81
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